Day 1 · Lima
Arrive in Lima
You are met at the airport and driven to your hotel. Rest after the flight or head out for a first look at the capital.
8 days · 7 nights
The Inca heartland at a private pace, with a night beside Machu Picchu and a free morning to go back.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesTwo nights in Lima, then a flight to Cusco for its temples and a day out to the circular terraces of Moray and the salt pans of Maras. Move into the Sacred Valley, spend a night in Aguas Calientes after your Machu Picchu tour, and keep the next morning free for a second visit.
The same person from your first question to the flight home, with a wedding or vow renewal planned alongside if you like.
How the days unfold. Your advisor tailors the pace, the hotels and the extras to you.
+1 day beforeA night in Lima first
Lima
Day 1 · Lima
You are met at the airport and driven to your hotel. Rest after the flight or head out for a first look at the capital.
Day 2 · Lima
A private tour of the UNESCO-listed centre takes in the Plaza de Armas, the 16th-century cathedral and Casa Aliaga, still owned by the family Pizarro granted it to. Then on to the Larco Museum in Pueblo Libre and its pre-Hispanic gold and silver, with the afternoon free.
Cusco
Day 3 · Cusco
Fly to Cusco in the morning and check in. In the afternoon your guide leads you from the Santo Domingo convent, built over the Coricancha sun temple, to the cathedral, then up to Sacsayhuaman, Qenqo and Puka Pukara.
Moray and Maras
Day 4 · Moray and Maras
Drive into the countryside to Moray, where rings of Inca terraces drop into the ground, each level with its own microclimate. Continue to the salt pans of Maras, thousands of small pools still worked by local families, then return to Cusco.
Sacred Valley
Day 5 · Sacred Valley
Visit the weaving town of Chinchero and its 17th-century church, then the Living Museum of Yucay, where Inca crafts are made the old way and the llamas and alpacas can be fed. Lunch in Ollantaytambo comes with a climb up its fortress.
Machu Picchu and Aguas Calientes
Day 6 · Machu Picchu and Aguas Calientes
Take the train down the valley to Aguas Calientes and the bus up to Machu Picchu for a guided tour of the citadel. Lunch is back in town, and the rest of the day is yours.
Aguas Calientes and Cusco
Day 7 · Aguas Calientes and Cusco
Spend the morning as you like. Many couples go back up to Machu Picchu, climb Huayna Picchu or walk to the Sun Gate for the view down over the citadel. In the afternoon the train and a transfer return you to Cusco.
Cusco
Day 8 · Cusco
Breakfast, then a transfer to Cusco airport for your onward flight.
+1 day afterA last night in Cusco
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Lima · 2 nights
Or similar
Cusco · 3 nights
Two nights on arrival and your last night. Or similar
Sacred Valley · 1 night
Or similar
Aguas Calientes · 1 night
At the foot of Machu Picchu. Or similar
Add a few days before or after. Your advisor quotes them with the journey.
Before the journey · +1 day
Arrive a day early and rest before the journey begins, at the same hotel level.
After the journey · +1 day
Stay on for a slower final day in Cusco, at the same hotel level.
Tell us when you would like to travel. Your advisor confirms dates and hotels, tailors the trip to the two of you, and stays with you until you are home.
Peru
7 days · 6 nights
Lima → Cusco → Sacred Valley → Cusco → Puno
A night in Lima, then up to Cusco for the old Inca capital and a night in the Sacred Valley. A train carries you to Machu Picchu and back to Cusco, before a full day crossing the altiplano to Puno, where a boat takes you to the Uros and Taquile islands on Lake Titicaca.
Peru
13 days · 12 nights
Lima → Cusco → Sacred Valley → Machu Picchu → Cusco → Nauta
You start with a food market and a bike ride through Lima, then head into the Sacred Valley for a llama-escorted walk and a village visit. Machu Picchu comes next, by train or on foot, with a sunrise return to the ruins. You finish with four nights on a small riverboat from Nauta into the Amazon basin.
Peru
9 days · 8 nights
Lima → Sacred Valley → Aguas Calientes → Cusco
Two nights in Lima ease you in, then you fly to Cusco and head straight down to the Sacred Valley for two quiet nights. A night in Aguas Calientes gives you Machu Picchu with time to spare, and three nights in Cusco finish with a horse ride, a walking tour and a free day.
Two nights in Lima, then a flight to Cusco for its temples and a day out to the circular terraces of Moray and the salt pans of Maras. Move into the Sacred Valley, spend a night in Aguas Calientes after your Machu Picchu tour, and keep the next morning free for a second visit.
Every trip can be shaped around you before you book.
Arrive early or stay on at the end, in the same hotel or somewhere new.
Your travel expert books flights that fit the first and last day.
Choose a better room or a hotel with a view for the nights that count.
A honeymoon, an anniversary or a birthday, planned into the trip.
Other ways to see Peru, closest in length first.
Small group tour | 8 days | Lima · Cusco · Machu Picchu
Private tour | 7 days | Lima · Cusco · Puno | Price on enquiry.
Small group tour | 9 days | Lima · Cusco · Puno
Private tour | 9 days | Lima · Sacred Valley · Cusco | Price on enquiry.
